What we all wouldn’t give to work on a tropical island, or even just to fly there for a few days to unwind and soak up the sun… *sighs* But if you can’t do that right now, do the next best thing: grab a copy of Wife in Name Only, the freshly released debut novel of contemporary romance author Hayson Manning and a glass of chilled margarita and escape to this faraway paradise. But before you do that, join us as Hayson stops by to talk a bit about her novel and its connection to dream jobs… and of course you could even win a copy of Wife in Name Only! 😉 

Dream Jobs

Tonga vista

When I was writing Wife in Name Only, I thought Zoe’s job of running a boutique honeymoon resort on a small island in Tonga was a dream job! Living on a Pacific Island? Heaven. Surrounded by people in love? Tick. Having the Pacific Ocean and the sparkly waves as a playground? Book me a ticket!

I did a quick poll at Chez Manning. Serial shoe dropper, aka hubs’, dream job would be a beer taster. Well, no real shock there. If he can’t taste beer all day then he’d like to be a mail carrier, on a bicycle, preferably in the country where he’ll be surrounded by fields with happy cows chewing their cud. People will rejoice when they see him and he’ll be loved. I think, just quietly, that he’d been partaking a tad too much of his first dream job’s malty hops, coupled with a shocker day at work.

Sloth One’s dream job is to join the British version of Top Gear, hang out with Jeremy, Hammond and James, test cars, meet celebrities and try to get a car to float, fly, or blowup. I can see the appeal. It’s his dream job, so I’m letting it ride. Reality and finding a job will hit him eventually.

Sloth Two would like to be a welder. He couldn’t say why but I expect it has something to do with melting metal and flame.

I love my job. Writing is my dream job and I adore that I can do this.

I thought a lot about Zoe and Rory and how their jobs influenced their lives. Rory became obsessed about being the best and didn’t see his marriage crumbling. Zoe found herself and her dream job in Tonga and couldn’t go back to an empty void in L.A. Working for a lot of us is a necessity. It can make us grumpy, happy, filled with joy or want to commit a felony; okay so maybe that’s just the jobs I’ve worked at.

I wonder if are you’re working in your dream job and if not what would your dream job be?

Hayson Manning’s debut release, Wife in Name Only with Entangled Publishing, is available now. She lives in Southern California with her lovely sloth children, infuriating but much loved shoe-dropping husband, a tubby opinionated cat (as if a cat doesn’t ever have an opinion). There will often be a foster dog parked on the couch waiting for their forever home. She loves to read, cries while watching Antiques Roadshow and is cannot speak she’s sobbing so much by the end of Undercover Boss. She is also an expert at finding new and inventive ways to avoid exercise.

You can find Hayson at her website, blog, Facebook, Goodreads and Twitter.

Wife in Name Only by Hayson Manning

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Zoe Hughes escaped to make a new life for herself on the tiny island of Tonga. Now she runs a successful boutique honeymoon resort. Selling true love is easy. No one needs to know she’s married in name only. At least until America’s premier honeymoon magazine wants to publish a feature on her perfect marriage. Now she must convince her estranged husband to rip himself away from plotting corporate takeovers in LA to save her island paradise.

Rory agrees to come for forty-eight hours, but only because he needs the positive PR. To his surprise, the wife he finds in Tonga isn’t the same woman he married. Now she’s so much more…

When a storm strands Rory in Tonga, will he win back his wife or leave paradise empty-handed?

Read an excerpt

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Entangled Publishing has generously offered a PDF copy of Wife in Name Only by Hayson Manning to a lucky commenter! 

All you have to do is leave a comment and tell us:

 Are you’re working in your dream job and if not what would your dream job be?

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This giveaway is open to all!

Giveaway ends on 4 May 2013 and we will announce the winner on Sunday.

Good Luck!

About Stella

Stella is a proud bookaholic and a self-taught multilinguist in training. Besides reading, her other great passions are travelling and baking. When she is not globetrotting she lives in sunny Budapest, where she loves to spend her free time preparing (and feasting on) delicious cookies or devouring equally yummy books. Her favourite genres are urban fantasy and romance and she couldn't live without her daily dose of sunshine. Besides being the Latin Lover on BLI Stella also blogs about books and a bookish life on Ex Libris.

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